Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone circle
Forristeen, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Forristeen
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.05533, -6.68117
- SMR number
- WI015-018----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Listed as a 'stone circle' in the SMR (1986) and as a possible 'stone circle' in the RMP (1995). On level to gently S-facing ground in a farmyard. This 'stone circle' is reputed to have stood in front of the present house and to have been destroyed in 1952. It apparently consisted of a ring of forty small boulders ("few over 45cm (18") high") 9m (30') in diameter (ITA Survey 1943; Churcher 1985, 12-13). There is no visible surface indication of this monument.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 20 December 2012
Nearby in the register
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.